FILE PHOTO - Free Democratic Party (FDP) leader Christian Lindner arrives for the board meeting at the party headquarters in Berlin, Germany, November 20, 2017. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke
BERLIN (Reuters) - German voters are punishing the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) for walking out of three-way coalition talks last month as a poll showed on Thursday support for the party falling and the popularity of its leader Christian Lindner tumbling.
The FDP in mid-November quit exploratory talks to form a coalition government with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and the environmentalist Greens. Lindner said back then it was better not to govern than to govern the wrong way.
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